rotation

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rotatiō. By surface analysis, rotate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹoʊˈteɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

rotation (countable and uncountable, plural rotations)

1. (chiefly uncountable) The act of turning around a centre or an axis.

2. A single complete cycle around a centre or an axis.

3. A regular variation in a sequence, such as to even out wear, or people taking turns in a task; a duty roster.

   Applying crop rotation to a field avoids depleting soil nutrients the way repeated use of a single crop might do.

   In rotation, each member of the group would be responsible for the beacon fire.

   The medical resident finished a two-week rotation in pediatrics and began one in orthopaedics.

4. (finance), the movement of investments between different sectors of an economy, or styles of investing, based on anticipated changes in the economic or market cycle.

   Sector rotation attempts to capitalize on the tendency of certain sectors to outperform others during specific economic phases, while style rotation involves shifting investments between different investment styles, such as moving from growth stocks to value stocks.

5. (mathematics, geometry) An operation on a metric space that is a continuous isometry and fixes at least one point.

   The function mapping (x,y) to (−y,x) is a rotation.

6. (baseball) The set of starting pitchers of a team.
7. (aviation) The step during takeoff when the pilot commands the vehicle to lift the nose wheel off the ground during the takeoff roll. (see also: V2)
8. Repeated play of songs on a radio station, advertisements on a television channel, etc.

Synonyms

• turning
• revolution
• rota, roster, duty roster, schedule, turn, turn and turn about, cycling

Hypernyms

• (mathematics): isometry, transformation

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• axis

Further reading

• Rotation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rotātiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/

Noun

rotation f (plural rotations)

1. rotation

Derived terms

• axe de rotation

Related terms

• rouer, rôder

Descendants

• → Romanian: rotație
• → Turkish: rotasyon

Further reading

• “rotation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rotatio.

Noun

rotation c

1. act of turning a physical object or a coordinate system around a center or an axis

Declension